Alerted by my good friend and teacher in South Africa, Marc-Andre Daniels, this article provide encouraging hints that serious shifts in thinking about the nature of the 21st century learning environment in South Africa.

Aware of that fact that, as Marc put it, “we still fight against the presence of these technologies in our classrooms, confiscating cellphones, throwing a fit whenever a learners is seen with one, seeing it as more of a disturbance to learning than a more accessible (and preferable!) tool to learning”, I am encouraged by his optimism.